Well i just rang them up yesterday, turns out laura was right, they had sent me the task but it went straight to my junk mail!! and hence deleted itself after 5 days.
They sent it end of oct, so they very nearly rejected me thinking i just ignored the task on purpose. When i rang them up, the woman said that they knew there was a problem with hotmail filtering their emails into junk mail, but it should still be my responsibility to check my emails! Which i think is pretty unfair as not everyone would have access to internet all the time. Every other one of my unis have sent me at least one thing in the post, i don't see why UCL can't do that. I'm sure the same has happened to so many other applicants.
But it's a good thing i rang them up, she said she'd send me another email with info on the task (which coincedently went straight into my junkmail), so now i have 3 weeks from yesterday to do the task.
I'd advise anyone who hasn't recieved anything to ring them asap!!!
Also, Quiller, yeah, the interview dates that were given to me are now at end of January. Do you think there's any difference in the likelihood of getting in between the two batches? (as obviously the first batch prob full of Oxbridge applicants).
Maybe i'm thinking into it too much, just can't believe how unorganised the whole is! End of rant... apologies.